I have made several unsucessful attempts at setting up an external 30 gig usb ide hard drive. When using drakconf it is recognized, and I am cautioned;
I can't read the partition table of device sdc, it's too corrupted for me :( I can try to go on, erasing over bad partitions (ALL DATA will be lost!). The other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition table. (the error is unknown partition table format on disk /dev/sdc. ) Do you agree to loose all the partitions? I agree, and am presented with a bar representing /dev/sdc. I click to make one large partition out of this drive. Define my mount point, hit the format button and get this error message: writing partition table failed I have tried smaller partions, and differing file systems, to no avail. Does anyone have tips on setting up an external usb drive?
